Fastener socket



G. JOHNSON FASTENER SOCKET Oat-14, 1930,

Filed Nov. 14, 1928 Ia'wetaiows an; 12 Jamaica J m/2i: *J Y cfliiiz a Patented Oct. 14, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFECE GUSTAV JOHNSON, OF WEST ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED-CARR FASTENER CORPORATION, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS FASTENER SOCKET Application filed November 14, 1928. Serial No. 319,364.

My invention aims to provide improvements in slide sockets for use on the strap of a glove, overshoe or the like.

In the drawings, which illustrate a preferred embodiment of my invention:

Figure 1 is a plan of a fastener installation showing my improved socket attached to a strap;

Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1, the stud member being shown in elevation;

Figs. 3 and 4 show plan views of opposite faces of the socket; and

Fig. 5 is an edge View of the socket.

Referring to the particular embodiment of my invention illustrated by the drawings, I a have shown a slide fastener socket attached to a strap 1 and a cooperating stud 2 secured to a strap or other carrying medium 3.

The socket includes a plate part 4 pressed from sheet metal. This plate part has a cupshaped portion 5 formed centrally thereof with a stud-receiving aperture 6 through the bottom of the cup-shaped portion, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4. The remaining portion of the bottom of the cup-shaped portion forms a ledge 7 around the aperture upon which rests a split circular spring 8. This spring intersects the stud-receiving aperture (Fig.

3) and provides yieldable means for engagement with the stud 2 when engaged with the socket, as shown in Fig. 2.

The spring 8 is held in place within the cup-shaped portion by a number of ears 9 cut from the plate part 4 and bent inwardly over the s ring 8, as best illustrated in Figs.

2 and 4L. 1 o particular stress is exerted upon the ears 9 because when the stud and socket are engaged the stress exerted up on the spring 8 is carried by the continuous ledge 7.

' At opposite sides of the cup-shaped portion 5, Thave provided in the plate part 4 the strap-receiving slots 10 and the toothlike projections 11 intersecting the slots to engage 5 the strap 1 and prevent accidental sliding movement of the socket.

improved socket is simple, durable, inexpensive to manufacture and easy to assemble. It is relatively thin and therefore desirable for many uses where a relatively thick fastener socket would be undesirable because of the excessive bunch that it would form. No difficult operations are necessary in the forming of the plate part 4 or in assembling the spring 8 with the plate part.

WVhile I have illustrated and described a specific embodiment of my invention, I do not wish to be limited thereto, as the scope of my invention is best defined in the following claims.

Claims:

1. A slide fastener socket for straps and the like comprising a plate portion, a cupshaped portion pressed from said plate portion, said cup-shaped portion having an apertured bottom, a spring supported on said bottom and intersecting said aperture, a number of spring-retaining ears formed from said plate portion and having their free ends eX- tending over the spring at the side opposite the bottom of the cup-shaped portion thereby to hold the spring in assembled relation with the cup-shaped portion and two strap-receiving slots provided in said plate portion for attaching the socket to a strap or the like.

2. A slide fastener socket for straps and the like comprising a one-piece casing member having a plate portion, a cup-shaped portion pressed from said plate portion, said cup-shaped portion having an apertured bottom. a spring supported on said bottom and intersecting said aperture, a number of spring-retaining ears formed as an integral part of said casing and having their free ends extending over the spring at the side opposite the bottom of the cup-shaped portion thereby to hold the spring in assembled relation with the cup-shaped portion and two strap-receiving slots provided in said plate portion for attaching the socket to a strap or the like, said ears being spaced substantial distances apart in a lateral plane.

3. A slide fastener socket for straps and the like comprising a one-piece casing member having a plate portion, a cup-shaped portion pressed from said plate portion, said cup-shaped portion having an apertured bottom, a spring supported on said bottom and intersecting said aperture, a number of spring-retaining ears spaced substantial distances apart and extending inwardly oirer the'spring from the junction of the cupshaped portion and the plate portion thereby to hold the spring in assembled relation With the cup-shaped portion and strap-receiving slots provided in saidplate portion for attaching the socket to a strap or the like,

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

v GUSTAV JOHNSON. 

